by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“…wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government…” Thomas Jefferson, letter to Richard Price, 1789 January 8.
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to ; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.” Thomas Jefferson letter to James Madison, 1787...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness…Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance;...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
As part of his work in revising the laws of Virginia during the late 1770s and early 1780s, Thomas Jefferson put forth a bill that has become one of his most enduring works on the subject of education: Bill 79, “A Bill for the More General Diffusion of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Cicero, Freedom, Government, Philosophers
“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 16, 2013 | Constitution, Documents, Government, government, Natural Law
The Declaration of Independence states the purpose of our government is to protect citizen’s God given natural rights to Life, Liberty and Property (changed to Pursuit of Happiness). The Constitution is the document that provides the rules to accomplish this task. For...
